Unofficial news and tips about Google

March 31, 2007

Google as a Symbol of Excellence

When you want to say that a company is a leader in a field or has the best products, you say it's the Google of that field. If you search for "* is the Google of *", you'll find a lot of services and companies compared to Google.

* Krugle is the Google of programming code* Baidu is the Google of China* YouTube is the Google of Video* Michael Arrington is the Google of Web 2.0 (?!)* Gamespot is the Google of Videogames* Nero is the Google of burning software* Winamp is the Google of MP3 players* Technorati is the Google of blog searching* Flickr is the Google of photo sharing* Bloglines is the Google of RSS readers* Amazon is the Google of online book retailers* ImageShack is the Google of free image hosting* TailRank is the Google of memetrackers* Skype is already the Google of VoIP* Pandora is the Google of music* Honda is the Google of automakers* imdb is the Google of movies* MySpace is the Google of social networks* iTunes is the Google of the podcasting world* Lonely Planet is the Google of guidebooks